| Auctorem fidei Latin for 'Author of the Faith' Papal bull ofPopePius VI | |
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| Signature date | 28 August 1794 |
| Subject | Condemnation ofJansenism |
Auctorem fidei is apapal bull issued byPius VI on 28 August, 1794 to condemn the tendency towardsGallicanism andJansenist-tinged reforms of theSynod of Pistoia (1786).
The bull catalogued and condemned 85 articles of the Synod of Pistoia. After the bull's publication,Scipione de' Ricci submitted. In 1805, he took occasion of the presence ofPius VII in Florence on the latter's way to Rome from his exile in France to ask in person for pardon and reconciliation.
The document has been cited as a source of doctrinalorthodoxy when later popes were called to combat doctrinal errors in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is mentioned inGregory XVI's brief,Quo graviora (1833)[1] and hisencyclical lettersCommissum divinitus (1835) andInter praecipuas machinationes (1844),[2] and inPius X'sPascendi Dominici gregis (1907) andPaul VI'sMysterium fidei (1965). Pius VI's statement on adoration of theperson of Christ, whose humanity is inseparably united with "the person of the Word" (Proposition 63 inAuctorem fidei), is quoted byPope Francis in his encyclical letterDilexit nos (2024).[3]
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